Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film /

Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film /

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If Dutch cinema is examined in academic studies, the focus is usually on pre-war films or on documentaries, but the post-war fiction film has been sporadically addressed. Many popular box-office successes have been steeped in jokes on parochial conflicts, vulgar behavior and/or on sexual display, to...

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Main Author: Verstraten, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wit and humor in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
ART > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
The arts.
Films, cinema.
Film, TV and radio.
Film theory and criticism.
Humour au cinema.
Motion pictures > Netherlands > History > 20th century.
Netherlands.
Bibel > Philemonbrief
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Introduction; 1. Low-Class Comedies; 2. Multicultural Comedies; 3. From 'Kind-hearted' Comedies to Neurotic Romances; 4. Deliberate Camp; 5. Humour as an Aftermath Effect; 6. Homosocial Jokes; 7. From Ludic Humour to Cosmic Irony; 8. From Insubordinate ­Playfulness to Subversive Irony; 9. From Grotesque Caricature to Grotesque Satire; Conclusion.

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